Guides and notes from the road
Travel guides to Iceland and the North, and dated notes on what changed on the roads, the ferries and the prices.
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1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readAn electric car on the 7-day Ring Road: which days fit a 350 km rangeThe 7-day ledger re-run for 350 and 400 km of real range with a 20 per cent reserve: six days fit on a night's charge, Day 6 needs a stop; winter cuts up to 35 per cent.
1 Nov 2026 · 3 min readBaldur in dry dock: the Westfjords loop until late NovemberFerjuleiðir has Baldur in dry dock in Hafnarfjörður until late November 2026. Day 1 of the Westfjords ledger becomes 389 km by road; Flatey is a passenger boat.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readBest time to visit Iceland: a monthly scorecard with the numbersTwelve months scored on daylight, warmth, rain, sunshine, aurora dark hours, highland roads, puffins, whales and the ferry, computed or read 1 November 2026.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readBest waterfalls in Iceland, and what each one costs in minutesEleven waterfalls with the walk from the car park, the fee, the ledger day that passes them, and out-and-back minutes from the nearest ledger bed, computed 1 Nov 2026.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readEvery toll and site fee on Iceland's roads in one dated tableVaðlaheiði 2,216 ISK, Hornafjörður 1,500, Hvalfjörður free, car parks 1,000–1,500, Þingvellir 1,000, Kerið 700 a head, Stokksnes 1,100 or 1,200. Read on 1 November 2026.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readF-roads 2021–2025: share of years open by 15 June, 1 July and 15 JulyVegagerðin's table as one number per road: Kjölur open by 15 June in 5 of 5 years, Landmannalaugar from Sigalda in 4 of 5, Sprengisandur in 0 of 5 and 1 of 5 by 1 July.
1 Nov 2026 · 4 min readFaroe tunnel tolls in one table, and how to pay themTunnil's prices read 1 November 2026: 175 kr for the Eysturoy and Sandoy tunnels, 50 kr for Vágar and Norðoyar, charged one way. Six days to pay online, not three.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readFines on Iceland's roads: the tariff, and where each one bites100 on a 90 road is 20,000 ISK, 110 is 50,000, 130 is 120,000 and 141 brings a one-month ban. Phone in hand 40,000, no belt 20,000. Regulation 1240/2019, read 1 Nov 2026.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readFlåm and "Norway in a nutshell" done yourself, with a carNorway's Best returned 429 four times on 1 November 2026, so no Flåmsbana or boat fare is printed. What Vy and Skyss publish, and the self-drive loop: 334.6 km, 5 h 50.
1 Nov 2026 · 4 min readFly or drive to Akureyri: the break-even fare for two and for fourDriving 387 km costs 15,657 ISK one way in fuel and a hire day at 1 November 2026 prices; flying wins below 7,828 ISK a head for two, 3,914 for four. Fares unreachable.
1 Nov 2026 · 4 min readGeiranger without the Hellesylt ferryFjord1 stopped the Geiranger–Hellesylt car ferry on 4 September 2026; it is suspended until further notice. The fjords ledger never used it; the road costs an hour.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readGolden Circle guide: the loop, the stops and what each add-on costsÞingvellir, Geysir, Gullfoss and Kerið in one 241.6 km day, plus five add-ons, each priced in km, minutes and krónur on 1 November 2026.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readIceland in summer: the windows that open, and the light that staysPuffins, highland roads, boats, caves and late lagoons, each with the dates its operator or agency prints, plus midnight-sun daylight and summer temperatures, computed.
1 Nov 2026 · 6 min readIceland in winter: what is open, what closes, how much lightNovember 2026 to March 2027 in dated switches: boats, caves, ferries, tyres and holidays, read on operators' and agencies' pages on 1 Nov 2026, daylight computed.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readKiruna to Abisko: train or car, in the dark months94 km on the E10 or 1 h 45 by train. Abisko has no sunrise from 6 December to 6 January and 2 h 52 of sun on 15 January, computed; blasting shuts both 05:30–07:30.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readLapland in winter: what to do in Rovaniemi, Jukkasjärvi and AbiskoHusky rides, the Icehotel, the Aurora Sky Station and the Arctic Circle line, with the drives between three bases and their computed sun, December to March.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readLaugavegur and Fimmvörðuháls: days, huts and buses, priced for 2027FÍ's 55 km Laugavegur and 25 km Fimmvörðuháls recomputed at 4 km/h plus a climb allowance, with the 2027 hut price list, Trex's 2027 fares and the F-road record.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readLofoten in winter: the E10, the Bodø ferry and three hours of lightReine has 3 h 15 min of sun on 15 January 2027, computed, and none from 10 December to 2 January. The Bodø ferry's winter sailings, and a February week against Iceland.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readNorway's fjords: what to do, and which day of the week it fitsThe Geirangerfjord boat, the Flåm Railway, Trollstigen and Preikestolen: operator prices and seasons read 1 November 2026, and the drive from each ledger night.
1 Nov 2026 · 4 min readRental excesses, gravel and ash cover, and 6.95 ISK a kilometreSCDW, gravel and ash cover from two rental sites read 1 November 2026, the excess each leaves, the per-km road charge, and 21 to 27 ISK of insurance per ledger km.
1 Nov 2026 · 4 min readRoute 1's mountain passes: heights, closures and the ledger daysFjarðarheiði 620 m, Öxnadalsheiði 540, Holtavörðuheiði 407, Hellisheiði 374 on Vegagerðin's list. Dated notices: the south closes for wind, the north and east for snow.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readSnæfellsnes: day trip or overnight, in hours behind the wheelThe loop from Reykjavík is 444 km, all paved, 5 h 33 min at 80 km/h: two hours of driving per hour out of the car. A night in Stykkishólmur brings the ratio to 1.1.
1 Nov 2026 · 6 min readSouth Coast guide: every stop in minutes from Vík and from ReykjavíkSeljalandsfoss to Jökulsárlón: ten stops with road distance from Vík and from Reykjavík, fees read 1 November 2026, and the ledger days that string them together.
1 Nov 2026 · 4 min readStudded tyres from 1 November: what a winter hire actually meansStuds are permitted from 1 November to 14 April, and from the same day every passenger car needs 3.0 mm of tread. Neither rule says a hire car must have studs.
1 Nov 2026 · 4 min readThe Golden Circle fact sheet: leg by leg, in km, minutes and krónurReykjavík to Þingvellir, Geysir, Gullfoss, Kerið and back: 241.6 km, 180 minutes at legal speed in summer, 245 in winter, 9,882 ISK for two at 1 November 2026 prices.
1 Nov 2026 · 4 min readThe longest stretch without fuel on each Iceland ledgerFrom the ledger legs and the one station list readable on 1 November 2026 (olis.is; n1.is and orkan.is were not): 365 km between confirmed pumps on the 7-day loop.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readThe seven-day ledger, costed per dayDay by day: kilometres, minutes, litres at 284.20 ISK, fees with a published price, bands for the rest. Fuel 33,145 ISK and fees 11,237 for the week; Day 6 is longest.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readThings to do in the Faroe Islands, in minutes from TórshavnMykines, Vestmanna, Gásadalur, Saksun, Gjógv, Trælanípa and Kallur, each with the drive from Tórshavn, the tunnel toll and the walking fee, dated 1 November 2026.
1 Nov 2026 · 4 min readWestfjords loop: paved against gravel, leg by legVegagerðin's distance tool splits each road into paved and gravel. Over the six-day ledger: 99 km of gravel in 1,012, mostly the Látrabjarg road, and a 204 km fuel gap.
1 Nov 2026 · 4 min readWhat the new Hornafjörður toll does to the Ring Road weekFrom 1 September 2026 the 19 km Hornafjörður section is tolled by camera at 1,500 ISK a trip. For the seven-day loop that is one certain crossing and one probable one.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readWhat the Ring Road costs per vehicle class: fuel, tolls and car parksThe seven-day ledger's 1,555 km at the 1 November 2026 pump price: 44,382 ISK in a small petrol car, 55,430 mid-size, 64,269 large, tolls and published parking included.
1 Nov 2026 · 5 min readWhere to sleep on the Ring Road: towns with fuel and a supermarketSeventeen stops on Route 1 spaced by Vegagerðin's distances and checked against the fuel and supermarket chains' lists on 1 November 2026. Longest store gap: 260 km.